On Sunday 28 December 2008 15:08:56 Beartooth wrote:
My main #1 machine has two hard drives, one with a brand new, not
yet usable install of F10, and one (alas!) that still has XP (for making
proprietary map software talk to my GPSs).
Hi, Beartooth. Do some googling for OpenStreetMap, JOSM, and GPSBabel. Maybe
you won't need XP for much longer.
Formerly, running QTparted against it (not using QTparted, just
launching it!) would show both drives, labeled with logos.
That was invaluable whenever I upgraded Fedora or installed it
anew -- I'm exactly the sort of guy who says Walter when I mean Wolfram,
or Goethe when I mean Schiller; it would be just like me to get my hard
drives backward, thus wiping out ten years of hoarded GPS data.
Now it only shows one hard drive! Why? Why??
I can't answer that, but I know what you mean about the anxiety. I always run
df -h and note my partitions from there. If you have unmounted partitions
that must be included, try mounting them as /mnt/tmp1, /mnt/tmp2 etc., so that
you can identify them.
Remember that 'fdisk -l' will list your partitions and the type, so you can
easily see whether you have accounted for all of them.
HTH
Anne